Nominations are now open for the 2023 Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize. Nominations should be made to the IACR General Secretary, Catherine Hastings, catherine.hastings@mq.edu.au by 31 May, 2023. The Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize is awarded annually for a book that constitutes, motivates… Read More »Nominations open for Cheryl Frank Prize
=== Online book launch: Friday 24th March – register on eventbrite === Working with Critical Realism: Stories of Methodological Encounters, edited by Alpesh Maisuria and Grant Banfield, has been published by Routledge in our Critical Realism book series. This international… Read More »Online book launch: Stories from researchers on learning to work with Critical Realism
The 2023 annual conference of the International Association for Critical Realism will be held in Manila, from 9-11 August, with a pre-conference PhD workshop on 7-8 August. The conference ill be hosted by the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines.… Read More »Call for papers for IACR 2023 conference
Please join The Philosophy of MetaReality: Creativity, Love and Freedom Reading Group and Teach out (online) First Meeting 0900-1100 GMT on 21st Feb and every two weeks after. PLEASE READ MANIFESTO AND INTRODUCTION (pages vii-xxiii) BEFORE FIRST MEETING All are… Read More »Reading group on Roy Bhaskar’s Philosophy of Metareality
Zoom format – March 25 & 26 , 2023 The Critical Social Ontology Workshop is an interdisciplinary venue for radical thinking about the metaphysics of irreducibly social phenomena. Core members of CSOW are Ruth Groff (Coordinator), Sally Haslanger, Tony Lawson,… Read More »Annual Critical Social Ontology Workshop – Call for Papers
Jin Xue, professor in urban and regional planning at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, is organizing a one-week PhD course on ‘Critical realism in environment, development and planning studies’ on June 5 – 9, 2023 in the Oslo region… Read More »One week course on critical realism in environment, development and planning studies
The first issue of the Polish Journal of Critical Realism will probably come out at the end of March or the beginning of April. Texts have already been received for the first issue. Funding has been secured for the Journal… Read More »Update on Critical Realism in Poland
The next IACR conference (including pre-conference) will be held 7th – 11th August 2023 in Manila, The Philippines, with options for remote online participation. To receive further announcements you can sign up at the IACR conference page.
A guest post by Robert Isaksen. The full call, including references, is available here on the website of the Journal for Critical Realism. I shall argue that although ontology is important, we also have to pay attention to other features… Read More »Call for Papers, Special Issue: Judgemental Rationality
Invitation for Expressions of Interest Journal of Critical Realism (JCR) is the Journal of the International Association for Critical Realism (IACR), established in 1997 to foster the discussion, propagation and development of critical realist approaches to understanding and changing the… Read More »Volunteer editorial positions with the Journal of Critical Realism